| LC control no. | n 87873420 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Shakur, Assata |
| Variant(s) | Chesimard, JoAnne |
| Associated country | United States Cuba |
| Birth date | 1947-07-16 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Black nationalism |
| Affiliation | City University of New York. City College Black Panther Party Black Liberation Army |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Poets |
| Found in | Assata, an autobiography, 1987: CIP t.p. (Assata Shakur) galley (former Black Panther leader; b. JoAnne Chesimard) African American National Biography, accessed September 14, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Shakur, Assata; Joanne Deborah Bryon Chesimard; black nationalist, author, poet; born 16 July 1947 in New York, New York, United States; attended Manhattan Community College and City College of New York (1960s); joined the BPP and BLA (1970); charged, convicted, sentenced to life plus an additional thirty-three years; transferred to Alderson Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, West Virginia, and then to Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey (1978); escaped Clinton Correctional Facility for Women (1979); fled to Cuba (1984) and gained political asylum; published Assata: An Autobiography (1987); U.S. Congress passed a resolution (House Concurrent Resolution 254) and U.S. State Department had offered to lift the Cuban embargo if Cuba returns her to US (1998); FBI recognized her as a "domestic terrorist" 1 million dollar bounty on her head (2005)) |
| Associated language | eng |
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